While you may be correct about the graphics.. comparing the sound quality is stupid! Your computer or dreamcast don't play sound worth a damn... just like you said... 4 speakers and a sub play your sound. If I am not mistaken there have been video games made for consoles that take advantage of surround sound. And I can bet you that the sound quality of a BOSE surround system will put your 5 speaker system hooked up to your SB live to shame... so please leave speakers out of the equation.
one server holds the "Master" records and the rest of the root servers are slaves of it. They all update their records off the master. That is how it works as I understand it.. somebody correct me if I am wrong...
I don't know where you live but around here I have not yet met a linux sysadmin that is stupid enough to leave all those services running... You can't blame an OS for its users being stupid. If an OS comes with alot of services running and the sysadmin in charge of the system isn't smart enough to set the system up right you can't blame the OS... blame the sysadmin. There is no excuse no matter what OS for a firewall to be setup like you just described it.
I personally would buy one of these because I want an xterminal in my bathroom that can play mp3's:) But the main market here isn't going to be people sitting at home... it will be corporations. There is a large market for X Terminals out there. I-Opener could undercut everyone and still offer a better product than others. Last time I priced out X Terminals they were well over $1000. If they could come out with one for less than that and make a profit, they would have it made!
I know this may be a little off topic but here goes. I have been told by friends of mine that have or currently do use a satellite ISP's that lag is REALLY bad. From what they say irc, icq, aim, any games, etc... perform poorly with such a service. If you don't use many applications that rely on fast response time you should be ok. Just beware....
I have always wanted to try Debian but never broke down and did so. I have a couple of questions that I was hoping someone could answer... 1.) Does Debian have any system install automation like Redhat's kickstart? If I were to start using Debian, I would start USING Debian. Which means I would have to install it on 13 machines, and I don't want to set down and pick packages for each. 2.) How good is the Debian package management? I would like to use it with the 13 boxes as well... Right now if I need to update something on the boxes I make an rpm, put it in a certain directory, and it installs itself that night. Would something like that be possible in debian?
This could easily be something that gives linux alot more attention than what it currently has. Linux is lacking in the "User friendly" aspects that windows has. I know many people can argue that windows is user friendly but to most people starting up a machine and seeing that colorful desktop instead of a login screen makes them more comfortable.
There are alot of reasons that people use windows over Linux and those are price and stability. The reason people use windows is there are actually applications that do what they want easily. It is understandable that there arn't alot of applications out for Linux (yet) that are user friendly. Alot of Linux applications are written in computer scientists spare time. And we don't have to make something user friendly, chances are it won't be;) Some high quality windows applications could make Linux a possible choice in the corporate world as a desktop. With KDE and GNOME we arn't far off from being user friendly...
I have wanted to be able to use Internet Explorer for Linux for a long time. I don't like many Microsoft products but IE is one thing microsoft did right.... It crashes less on me than any other browser I have used. So until Mozilla gets to a stable point, I may start using IE! On the other hand I think we need to keep an eye on this type of stuff. If alot of windows programs start flowing into *nix it could cause interest in open source to taper off. Alot of people get into developing open source products because they want to do something in their OS of choice and find out that there arn't any programs out there that do what they want... If there are alot more closed source programs out there coming over from windows, not only will there be less "why doesn't my OS have one of those" projects and more people learning the windows api and going closed source because its common with that api. I know some people are going to flame me for suggesting using Microsoft products but grow up. If a company has a good product I am going to use it. If you have a valid counter or something to add to my statements please add them but if all you are interested in letting people know is how much you hate Microsoft, please don't waste everybodys time
Anything 80's...... I have a large collection of music that I ripped off of cd's on my rack to make one HUGE cd of all of my 80's music in mp3 format. Any time I have to code I break out my 80's cd.
It's simple.... Some of you are saying that use of this is dead. I can log onto a computer right now that probably has 30-40 slirp sessions running on it. College students are poor, or arn't allowed to get a cable/dsl modem in the doors/apartments they live in. And with some universities allowing free dialup servers like the one I goto, it is a valid solution. Granted its not gonna smoke but for the casual user that can always walk to a computer lab to do anything real, it works fine. Is it a valid solution for most people no, mainly because we want to do more than look at a couple of simple web pages and reply to e-mails. I know now that I have a cable modem I couldn't ever go back to dialup. But for those that don't have the option slirp is a valid solution.
I don't really see the need for a floppy drive in a computer these days.. you have zip drives, cd-rom drives, jazz, etc.... why floppy? Any decent hardware can boot off of a zip or cd-rom why even waste your time with such a small storage format?
I could be totally wrong about this but couldn't this be a security risk? Just allowing computers on yout network to set their own name? I know my logs have a few entries already where people on the campus where I work have tried to enter stuff into my DNS server. If somebody wanted too they could just make up a name that is close to that of another one Example: a server has bubba.admin.whatever.int a devious person sets his name to bubba.worker.whatever.int and somebody telnets/ftps/etc... to bubba and gets bubba.worker instead of bubba.admin because of a search path issue..
I could be overly paranoid which is very possible, so somebody set me straight on this...
I am very happy with the cap. Pre cap network status sucked... Download speeds had begun to crawl compared to what they were when I signed up with the service. I couldn't telnet to my box because of extreme lag. Now that they have enabled the cap, everything is fine. The service wasn't meant for upstream! There is no reason to run web, ftp, and other servers on this connection. If you want that try to find a provider that allows that in their acceptable use policy. 128k is plenty for what the service was designed for.
Could it be made external.. I have a external SCSI hard drive case that I took the hard drive out of to put it inside my case, could I put the internal SCSI in it? It shouldn't be a problem right except mabey for cutting the hole for the drive to stick through the front.
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While you may be correct about the graphics.. comparing the sound quality is stupid! Your computer or dreamcast don't play sound worth a damn... just like you said... 4 speakers and a sub play your sound. If I am not mistaken there have been video games made for consoles that take advantage of surround sound. And I can bet you that the sound quality of a BOSE surround system will put your 5 speaker system hooked up to your SB live to shame... so please leave speakers out of the equation.
one server holds the "Master" records and the rest of the root servers are slaves of it. They all update their records off the master. That is how it works as I understand it.. somebody correct me if I am wrong...
What could cause such a dramatic increase in hits on the main root server?
I don't know where you live but around here I have not yet met a linux sysadmin that is stupid enough to leave all those services running... You can't blame an OS for its users being stupid. If an OS comes with alot of services running and the sysadmin in charge of the system isn't smart enough to set the system up right you can't blame the OS... blame the sysadmin. There is no excuse no matter what OS for a firewall to be setup like you just described it.
I personally would buy one of these because I want an xterminal in my bathroom that can play mp3's :) But the main market here isn't going to be people sitting at home... it will be corporations. There is a large market for X Terminals out there. I-Opener could undercut everyone and still offer a better product than others. Last time I priced out X Terminals they were well over $1000. If they could come out with one for less than that and make a profit, they would have it made!
I know this may be a little off topic but here goes. I have been told by friends of mine that have or currently do use a satellite ISP's that lag is REALLY bad. From what they say irc, icq, aim, any games, etc... perform poorly with such a service. If you don't use many applications that rely on fast response time you should be ok. Just beware....
I have always wanted to try Debian but never broke down and did so. I have a couple of questions that I was hoping someone could answer...
1.) Does Debian have any system install automation like Redhat's kickstart?
If I were to start using Debian, I would start USING Debian. Which means I would have to install it on 13 machines, and I don't want to set down and pick packages for each.
2.) How good is the Debian package management?
I would like to use it with the 13 boxes as well... Right now if I need to update something on the boxes I make an rpm, put it in a certain directory, and it installs itself that night. Would something like that be possible in debian?
Thanks ahead of time for anyone's input...
This could easily be something that gives linux alot more attention than what it currently has. Linux is lacking in the "User friendly" aspects that windows has. I know many people can argue that windows is user friendly but to most people starting up a machine and seeing that colorful desktop instead of a login screen makes them more comfortable.
;) Some high quality windows applications could make Linux a possible choice in the corporate world as a desktop. With KDE and GNOME we arn't far off from being user friendly...
There are alot of reasons that people use windows over Linux and those are price and stability. The reason people use windows is there are actually applications that do what they want easily. It is understandable that there arn't alot of applications out for Linux (yet) that are user friendly. Alot of Linux applications are written in computer scientists spare time. And we don't have to make something user friendly, chances are it won't be
I have wanted to be able to use Internet Explorer for Linux for a long time. I don't like many Microsoft products but IE is one thing microsoft did right.... It crashes less on me than any other browser I have used. So until Mozilla gets to a stable point, I may start using IE!
On the other hand I think we need to keep an eye on this type of stuff. If alot of windows programs start flowing into *nix it could cause interest in open source to taper off. Alot of people get into developing open source products because they want to do something in their OS of choice and find out that there arn't any programs out there that do what they want... If there are alot more closed source programs out there coming over from windows, not only will there be less "why doesn't my OS have one of those" projects and more people learning the windows api and going closed source because its common with that api.
I know some people are going to flame me for suggesting using Microsoft products but grow up. If a company has a good product I am going to use it. If you have a valid counter or something to add to my statements please add them but if all you are interested in letting people know is how much you hate Microsoft, please don't waste everybodys time
Anything 80's...... I have a large collection of music that I ripped off of cd's on my rack to make one HUGE cd of all of my 80's music in mp3 format. Any time I have to code I break out my 80's cd.
It's simple.... Some of you are saying that use of this is dead. I can log onto a computer right now that probably has 30-40 slirp sessions running on it. College students are poor, or arn't allowed to get a cable/dsl modem in the doors/apartments they live in. And with some universities allowing free dialup servers like the one I goto, it is a valid solution. Granted its not gonna smoke but for the casual user that can always walk to a computer lab to do anything real, it works fine.
Is it a valid solution for most people no, mainly because we want to do more than look at a couple of simple web pages and reply to e-mails. I know now that I have a cable modem I couldn't ever go back to dialup. But for those that don't have the option slirp is a valid solution.
I don't really see the need for a floppy drive in a computer these days.. you have zip drives, cd-rom drives, jazz, etc.... why floppy? Any decent hardware can boot off of a zip or cd-rom why even waste your time with such a small storage format?
I could be totally wrong about this but couldn't this be a security risk? Just allowing computers on yout network to set their own name? I know my
logs have a few entries already where people on the campus where I work have tried to enter stuff into my DNS server. If somebody wanted too they could just make up a name that is close to that of another one
Example:
a server has bubba.admin.whatever.int
a devious person sets his name to bubba.worker.whatever.int and somebody telnets/ftps/etc... to bubba and gets bubba.worker instead of bubba.admin because of a search path issue..
I could be overly paranoid which is very possible, so somebody set me straight on this...
Since everybody has an oppinion on this subject I think the best way to figure out what the majority thinks would be a slashdot poll...
;)
It may be a better one than some of the ones lately
I am very happy with the cap. Pre cap network status sucked... Download speeds had begun to crawl compared to what they were when I signed up with the service. I couldn't telnet to my box because of extreme lag. Now that they have enabled the cap, everything is fine. The service wasn't meant for upstream! There is no reason to run web, ftp, and other servers on this connection. If you want that try to find a provider that allows that in their acceptable use policy. 128k is plenty for what the service was designed for.
Well see... Now you can just tape something on the
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bottom... There is always room for fun.
Until they start running on GPS they can't stop the mouse fun
Looks like they got taken down for awhile too but due to equipment relocation.... you should have knocked on wood when you said that ;)
Could it be made external.. I have a external
SCSI hard drive case that I took the hard drive
out of to put it inside my case, could I put the
internal SCSI in it? It shouldn't be a problem right except mabey for cutting the hole for the
drive to stick through the front.
There was an article awhile back that spotlighted a company that had developed such technology. Now all we need is rollup hard drives.